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Auxiliary Sciences of History

Introducing archaeology

Robert J. Muckle and Stacey L. Camp.

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Education

College for students with disabilities

we do belong

edited by Pavan John Antony and Stephen M. Shore ; foreword by Temple Grandin.

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Fine Arts

The empty museum

Western cultures and the artistic field in modern Japan

Masaaki Morishita.

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Mischief making

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, art and the seriousness of play

Nicola Levell.

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Obtaining images

art, production and display in Edo Japan

Timon Screech.

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Imaging disaster

Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923

Gennifer Weisenfeld.

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Geography. Anthropology. Recreation

Twenty lessons in environmental sociology

Kenneth A. Gould, Tammy L. Lewis.

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Constructing civil society in Japan

voices of environmental movements

Koichi Hasegawa.

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Fashion, identity, image

Paul Jobling, Philippa Nesbitt and Angelene Wong.

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History of the Americas

Japanamerica

how Japanese pop culture has invaded the U.S.

Roland Kelts.

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Reclaiming two-spirits

sexuality, spiritual renewal, & sovereignty in Native America

Gregory D. Smithers ; foreword by Raven E. Heavy Runner.

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Hastings Mill

the historic times of a Vancouver community

Lisa Anne Smith.

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Language and Literature

Media and politics in Japan

edited by Susan J. Pharr and Ellis S. Krauss.

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Queer Euripides

re-readings in Greek tragedy

edited by Sarah Olsen and Mario Telo.

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Cambridge IELTS academic 16 with answers

authentic practice tests.

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Barron's IELTS

Lin Lougheed.

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"They say / I say"

the moves that matter in academic writing with readings

Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst ; with Laura J. Panning Davies.

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Japan and the culture of the four seasons

nature, literature, and the arts

Haruo Shirane.

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The modern Murasaki

writing by women of Meiji Japan

edited by Rebecca L. Copeland and Melek Ortabasi.

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Kafū the Scribbler

the life and writings of Nagai Kafū, 1879-1959

Edward Seidensticker.

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The art of dramaturgy

Anne Cattaneo

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The blunt playwright

an introduction to playwriting

Clem Martini.

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The Midnight Eye guide to new Japanese film

Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp ; foreword by Hideo Nakata.

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Contemporary Japanese film

by Mark Schilling.

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Working backstage

a cultural history and ethnography of technical theater labor

Christin Essin.

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Reverse colonization

science fiction, imperial fantasy, and alt-victimhood

David M. Higgins.

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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman.

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On the road

Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Ann Charters.

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Sunday on the rocks

a comedy in two acts

by Theresa Rebeck.

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For home and country

Leanna Brodie.

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Simple recipes

Madeleine Thien.

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The trigger

Carmen Aguirre.

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Four major plays

Henrik Ibsen ; translated by James McFarlane and Jens Arup ; with an introduction by James McFarlane.

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Wildflower

written by Melanie Brown ; illustrated by Sara Gillingham.

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White Raven

written by Teoni Spathelfer ; illustrated by Natassia Davies.

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Law

Article by article

the universal declaration of human rights for a new generation

Johannes Morsink.

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Contemporary Canadian business law

principles and cases

John A. Willes, John H. Willes.

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Medicine

Concepts of physical fitness

active lifestyles for wellness

Charles B. Corbin, Gregory J. Welk, William R. Corbin, Karen A. Welk.

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Davis's drug guide for nurses

April Hazard Vallerand, Cynthia A. Sanoski.

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Military and Naval Science

Cultural norms and national security

police and military in postwar Japan

Peter J. Katzenstein.

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Securing Japan

Tokyo's grand strategy and the future of East Asia

Richard J. Samuels.

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Philosophy. Psychology. Religion

The artist's way

a spiritual path to higher creativity

Julia Cameron.

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Partial Truths

How Fractions Distort Our Thinking.

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A new history of Shinto

John Breen and Mark Teeuwen.

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A cultural history of Japanese Buddhism

William E. Deal and Brian Ruppert.

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The Cambridge companion to the Gospels

edited by Stephen C. Barton, Todd Brewer.

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Political Science

The logic of Japanese politics

leaders, institutions, and the limits of change

Gerald L. Curtis.

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Thought and behaviour in modern Japanese politics

Masao Maruyama ; edited by Ivan Morris.

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Machiavelli's children

leaders and their legacies in Italy and Japan

Richard J. Samuels.

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Science

Precalculus

functions and graphs

Earl W. Swokowski, Jeffery A. Cole.

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College physics

Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille.

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Social Sciences

Regime shift

comparative dynamics of the Japanese political economy

T.J. Pempel.

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Japan remodeled

how government and industry are reforming Japanese capitalism

Steven K. Vogel.

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Waste

consuming postwar Japan

Eiko Maruko Siniawer.

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Perspectives on work, employment and society in Japan

edited by Peter Matanle and Wim Lunsing.

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Race for the exits

the unraveling of Japan's system of social protection

Leonard J. Schoppa.

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Tsukiji

the fish market at the center of the world

Theodore C. Bestor.

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Examining Japan's lost decades

edited by Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner.

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Japan since 1945

from postwar to post-bubble

edited by Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George.

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Against white feminism

notes on disruption

Rafia Zakaria.

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Women's realities, women's choices

an introduction to women's and gender studies

Hunter College Women's and Gender Studies Collective, Linda Martín Alcoff [and eight others].

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The politics of women's bodies

sexuality, appearance, and behavior

edited by Rose Weitz, Samantha Kwan.

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Underdogs

social deviance and queer theory

Heather Love.

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Seen and not heard

why children's voices matter

Jana Mohr Lone.

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The Colors of Love

Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships.

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Intergenerational mobility

how gender, race, and family structure affect adult outcomes

Jean Kimmel, editor.

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3.11

disaster and change in Japan

by Richard J. Samuels.

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Natural disaster and nuclear crisis in Japan

response and recovery after Japan's 3/11

edited by Jeff Kingston.

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Technology

Buried truths and the Hyatt skywalks

the legacy of America's epic structural failure

Richard A. Serrano.

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Robo sapiens japanicus

robots, gender, family, and the Japanese nation

Jennifer Robertson.

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World History

Ancient Greece

written by Anne Pearson.

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New Rome

The Empire in the East.

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Network power

Japan and Asia

edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi.

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Japan in the 21st century

environment, economy, and society

Pradyumna P. Karan ; cartography by Dick Gilbreath.

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Bending adversity

Japan and the art of survival

David Pilling.

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A history of popular culture in Japan

from the seventeenth century to the present

E. Taylor Atkins.

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Routledge handbook of Japanese culture and society

edited by Victoria Lyon Bestor and Theodore C. Bestor, with Akiko Yamagata.

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Premodern Japan

a historical survey

Mikiso Hane, Louis G. Perez.

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State and diplomacy in early modern Japan

Asia in the development of the Tokugawa Bakufu

Ronald P. Toby.

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A modern history of Japan

from Tokugawa times to the present

Andrew Gordon.

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Samurai and silk

a japanese and American heritage

Haru Matsukata Reischauer.

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From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor

who was responsible?

foreword by editor-in-chief Tsuneo Watanabe ; edited by James E. Auer.

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The growth idea

purpose and prosperity in postwar Japan

Scott O'Bryan.

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Unclassified Paperback Fiction

The clockmaker's daughter

a novel

Kate Morton.

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A touch of eternity

Durjoy Datta.

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(Updated: Mon 10/03/2022)